Crossword clues for untimely
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Untimely \Un*time"ly\, a. Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
Untimely \Un*time"ly\, adv.
Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely;
unseasonably. ``Let them know . . . what's untimely done.''
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 at an inopportune time 2 early; premature
WordNet
adj. badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke" [syn: ill-timed(a), ill timed(p), unseasonable, wrong]
uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end" [syn: premature]
adv. too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely" [syn: prematurely]
Usage examples of "untimely".
They had kept Billy Long as a manager until his untimely death, then quickly gave his job to the pudgy bartender, Leonard Wilbur.
Gilles and Anisia, married less than two months, had seemed young and frightened, full of childish trepidations, their mourning for Thomas Blas more a matter of alarm that they had been plunged into the charge of an isolated rural estate than of grief at his untimely death.
Moreover there has been no off-hand, untimely destruction of the nectariferous blossoms of millions of trees and shrubs.
That way an untimely power outage would not interrupt TRANSLTR during an important run.
There was no knowing what mischief Burton might have been up to with his retouching tools before his untimely demise.
But here it must be noted that this transvection offers a difficulty, which has often been mentioned, arising from one single authority, where it is said: It cannot be admitted as true that certain wicked women, perverted by Satan and seduced by the illusions and phantasms of devils, do actually, as they believe and profess, ride in the night-time on certain beasts with Diana, a goddess of the Pagans, or with Herodias and an innumerable multitude of women, and in the untimely silence of night pass over immense tracts of land, and have to obey her in all things as their Mistress, etc.
Jack, torn between grief and laughter, went to see to Vulcan before the ancient Baldrick tried to attend to the matter and cut a life of loyal service untimely short.
Thus Augustus, after all his fairer prospects had been snatched from him by untimely deaths, rested his last hopes on Tiberius, obtained for his adopted son the censorial and tribunitian powers, and dictated a law, by which the future prince was invested with an authority equal to his own, over the provinces and the armies.
The beadle stood dumfounded, not able to understand this untimely munificence when there were still so many things for the stranger to see.
Some of his escapes are so difficult no one has dared attempt them, all these years after his untimely death.
My father was Lamont Cranston, and he met an untimely end via the worst case of Dutch Elm Blight ever diagnosed at Johns Hopkins.
Apol, Lia, Cloe, and their band of poseurs had convinced them all that I had come to an untimely end in a mine cave-in.
In fact, those allegiances may well be the reason for poor Uulrac's untimely death.
In the year : A blizzard came untimely in Cintre and all the grapes withered.
The untimely death of John compelled him to accept an advantageous treaty.